A Drawer For Your Phuong	Search WWW Search www.moz.net.nz email moz

We have a king size mattress sitting on a base that I made. It's welded steel so quite thin, and about 500mm off the ground. So there's a lot of space under the bed. So much that stuff gets lost in the middle, between the easy-to-reach spaces on each side.

Solution: those under-bed storage units. Available in sizes up to 1.5m long and 300mm high, in various grades of shitty plastic. For a 2m wide bed. So obviously I had to build my own. Using commonly available household materials like castors, sheets of plywood and structural timber I made the drawer below. By conicidence it's 1600mm long and Phuong is about 1500mm tall. So she fits in nicely. That noise under the bed? It's nothing to worry about...

It's about 600mm wide, 400mm high (the sides are 300mm wide strips of ply with about 20mm overlap on the 90x45 structural. The ends are spare ply we had lying round, hence them being 40mm too narrow and 4mm short. The front end is reinforced because the first thing Phuong did to pull it out was igniore the handle and grab the middle of the end sheet of plywood. Since the photos I've added more screws, and it's not obvious but there is a screw into each end of the reinforcing timber. It should hold.